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VALIE EXPORT

'Der Mensch Als Ornament' (The Human as Ornament (from Körperkonfigurationen (Body Configurations))

Lot Closed

December 18, 08:08 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

VALIE EXPORT

b. 1940

'Der Mensch Als Ornament' (The Human as Ornament (from Körperkonfigurationen (Body Configurations))


titled, and with the photographer's credit stamp, signed and dated 1976, on the image, numbered 3/2 U. E. and annotated Auflage 3 stuck on the reverse

gelatin silver print, tipped to a mount

Image: 16⅜ by 23⅞ in. (41.6 by 60.6 cm.)

Framed: 21½ by 30½ in. (54.6 by 77.5 cm.)

Executed in 1976, this work is probably number 2 from an edition of 3. 

The photographer
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000
Innsbruck, Galerie im Taxispalais, VALIE EXPORT: Metanoia or another way of seeing things, September - November 2000
New York, Apex Art, Walking in the City: Spatial Practices in Art, from the Mid-1960s to the Present, January - February 2003, and traveling thereafter to:
Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, April - May 2003